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People with nothing to hide need not be bothered about surveillance, Supreme Court says
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I feel like there should be circumstances where if you're accused of something and found innocent, you need to be made whole. Maybe that's a huge payout. Maybe you get all your stuff back.
If the police bring you in for questioning because you were riding your bike, and you're shown innocent, they should pay out like $500/hour to you.
In Canada in 2006 someone was arrested and accused of burglarizing a jewelry store. The police arrested him even though there was no conceivable way he could have committed the crime. He was interrogated by the police in the usual way you see in any interrogation video on YouTube, telling him that his guilt is beyond question, that they only wanted to know if he was regular evil or just super evil and it would be better if he confessed and saved everyone a lot of time.
So what was the biggest giveaway that he wasn't the burglar? The 911 call that reported the crime said that the burglar was a below-average height white man with hair... and the guy they arrested was a very tall (6 foot 3 inch) BLACK man with NO hair (he shaved his head). The idea that this was a simple hiccup is so monumentally stupid it beggars belief. The interrogators did not even review the damn 911 and realize they had the wrong guy.
So what happened? The guy spent 3 days in jail before his bail hearing/conditional release and he spent the next year (not in jail thankfully) with his lawyer to sue the police over their incredibly stupid mistake. He won and was given around 45,000$ Canadian in compensation, but it should have been much higher.
The interrogation is on JCS's youtube channel and he reveals one very harrowing fact: If an officer gets a confession out of a suspect through deceit (as in, they say 'we got all the stuff! Fingerprints, DNA, video footage, cell tower metadata,etc, etc' when they in fact have jackshit) it is actually very good for the officer's career and could get them fast-tracked on promotions. This is even when many of those cases get overturned or proven false.
As usual: ‘Don't Talk to the Police’.
Government is bleeding money left and right on military and foreign policies. There's no money left for the citizens. (At least in the US; here in Spain the big money sink is retirement pensions)
The US prints money, that's not how it works.
As you should know, printing money is bad for existing money. For a reserve currency, all around the world.
Not printing money is also bad for existing money. Deflation is a very bad thing.
It's supply and demand, and supply creates its own demand. That's why the US economy grew so fast and became the reserve currency after it got off of the gold standard, it no longer had to be constrained by the limitations of gold and could just print whatever it needed. As long as there is demand, the supply can grow. When the supply grows, demand grows with it.
You can't just print infinite money, but it's a lot looser than you seem to think. There's plenty of money left.
They just hate their citizens and want them to suffer.
How is your money having more value a bad thing short-term?